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  • The Book of Snobs

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    The Book of Snobs examines the pervasive nature of snobbery across all social classes, using satire to critique the obsession with status, privilege, and public perception. Through a series of essays, the author humorously exposes the superficial behaviors that dominate social interactions, encouraging readers to reflect on their own tendencies toward pretense. The narrative begins by outlining ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair

    by William Thackeray ...
    No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    “Very likely Miss Binny was right to a great extent. It is the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.”Blonde, beautiful, and penniless Becky Sharpe will do whatever it takes to secure her position in life. Staying in London with naive but kind-hearted ... Read more

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  • Barry Lyndon

    by William Thackeray ...
    Set in late 18th century Europe the adventures and mis-adventures of a minor member of the Irish gentry trying to better himself. Redmond Barry of Bally Barry is a clever young man, who learns the manners of a gentleman. This serves him well, for the next few decades he meanders through Europe, as a soldier, mercenary, gambler, and vagabond. He reaches the pinnacle of worldly success by marriage ... Read more

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  • The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    On the library wall of one of the most famous writers of America, there hang two crossed swords, which his relatives wore in the great War of Independence. The one sword was gallantly drawn in the service of the king, the other was the weapon of a brave and honoured republican soldier. The possessor of the harmless trophy has earned for himself a name alike honoured in his ancestors' country and ... Read more

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  • The Luck of Barry Lyndon

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Follow the rise and fall of an Irish rogue in this picaresque masterpiece that exposes the hollow core of the aristocracy. The narrator, a charming but amoral adventurer, recounts his exploits in dueling, gambling, and marrying into wealth with a total lack of self-awareness regarding his own villainy. Through his unreliable voice, the novel offers a cynical view of the Seven Years' War and the ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Published in book form in 1848, "Vanity Fair" is a novel of early 19th-century English society by William Makepeace Thackeray and it is considered by many his masterwork. Thackeray’s previous writings had been published either unsigned or under pseudonyms, but "Vanity Fair" was the first work he published under his own name."Vanity Fair" follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language-one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature's most resourceful, attractive, and amoral characters. Essentially a commentary on hypocrisy ... Read more

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    Vanity Fair

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 52 min

    “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”Generally considered to be Thackeray’s masterpiece, Vanity Fair is a resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled A Novel without a Hero, it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a sweeping satirical masterpiece that offers a brilliant and unflinching portrait of ambition, greed, love, and social climbing in nineteenth-century England. First published in 1847–1848, this classic novel subtitled A Novel Without a Hero presents a vivid panorama of society, exposing its hypocrisies and moral contradictions with wit, irony, and ... Read more

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  • The Essential William Makepeace Thackeray Collection

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by William Makepeace Thackeray:The Tremendous Adventures of Major GahaganBarry LyndonThe Bedford-Row ConspiracyThe Book of SnobsBurlesquesCatherine: A StoryThe Christmas BooksThe Fatal BootsThe Fitz-Boodle PapersNotes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand CairoGeorge CruikshankThe History of Henry Esmond, Esq.The History of PendennisThe Hi... ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today."Re-reading Vanity Fair, one realises what a brilliant innovation this was in the English novel," remarked V. S. Pritchett. ... Read more

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